32 quotes by Christopher Lasch

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.” — Christopher Lasch

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“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.” — Christopher Lasch

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“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.” — Christopher Lasch

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“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.” — Christopher Lasch

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“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.” — Christopher Lasch

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“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.” — Christopher Lasch

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“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.” — Christopher Lasch

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